The Israeli occupation authorities intend to convert the outpost Adorayim, established on the lands of Dura south of Al-Khalil, into a settlement.

Israel established five new settlements and 50 new outposts. According to the map, 44.5% of the West Bank is under direct Israeli control or has been incorporated behind the separation wall.

Israel’s Knesset is set to approve a bill on Sunday that would allow the annexation of illegal Jewish settlements in the ...

Since the late 1970s, the future of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been the country’s most divisive debate. Yet the once-fringe settler movement has arguably become the most influential ...

Since Israel captured the West Bank, around half a million Jewish Israelis have built homes in towns known as “settlements.” Because the West Bank is considered to be occupied under ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an anti-settlement watchdog said Monday. Israelis and ...

Settlement in the West Bank is being pushed by Israeli hardliners and backed by the Israeli government but is viewed as a major obstacle to peace by Palestinians and by many internationally.

Israel captured the West Bank, along with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three territories for their future state and view the settlements as ...